It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Susan Hayward
as Cherokee Lansing
Robert Preston
as Brad Brady
Pedro Armendáriz
as Jim Redbird
Lloyd Gough
as Bruce Tanner
Chill Wills
as Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)
Ed Begley
as John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
Jimmy Conlin
as Homer Triplette
Roland Jack
as Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand
Harry Shannon
as Nelse Lansing
Lola Albright
as Candy Williams (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
as Tooley (uncredited)
John Dehner
as Oilman (uncredited)
